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| Lums Pond SP to Clay and Rebecca's farm |
Monday July 18 2016. Today we drove
north from Lums pond State Park in Delaware to our friends farm in
New York. It was an uneventful interstate cruise up the Jersey
turnpike to the the Garden State Parkway and finally to the New York
State Thruway. Just south of Albany we crossed the Hudson River and
drove the short distance to Hidden Acres Farm, home of our friends
Clay and Rebecca.
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| Our motorhome at Hidden Acres Farm |
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| Hidden Acres Farm |
Rebecca invited us to dinner that
afternoon and then we went out for ice cream. Along the way we
stopped at a large dairy farm that Clay sometimes works at. Three
farm workers tended to the 60 automatic milking stalls, the farm
produces three tankers of milk (15,000 gallons) every day. It was
impressive how the farm handled all aspects of breeding, raising and
maintaining the large herd of cattle, but on the other hand it was
somehow sad to see that dairy farming has evolved into a factory like
operation. Gone are the days of an idealistic farm scene with cows
grazing in a pasture, I won't say anymore, I don't want to spoil your
cheerio's.
We drove 260 Miles today.
Fuel=$68.92, 34.475 gallons, $1.99 per
gallon. (New Castle, Delaware)
=$63.87, 27.65 gallons, $2.30
per gallon. (Malden, New York)
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